Recorded in July, 1927 in Chicago.
Released as Paramount 12513
Credits
Ida Cox – Vocals
Jesse Crump – Piano
Category: Blues
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“Lost Man Blues” – Ida Cox (1927)
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“Mama Don’t Want You” – Stella Johnson (1936)
One of only three saucy sides recorded by this excellent Chicago jazz singer in 1936.
Recorded in Chicago on October 13, 1936.
Released as Decca 7284Credits
Stella Johnson – vocals
Randolph Scott – trumpet
Dorothy Scott – piano
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“Kansas City Blues Pt 1” – Jim Jackson
Mississippi-born blues singer and guitarist Jim Jackson outlines the many reasons why Kansas City is the preferred destination for future residence.
“My mother told me, daddy told me too,
Everybody grins in your face, son, ain’t no friend to you.
You ought to move to Kansas City.”A wildly popular song at the time that also influenced a generation of blues and rock performers decades after it was recorded.
Recorded in Chicago on October 10, 1927.
Released as Vocalion 1144 -
“Playing with the Strings” – Lonnie Johnson (1928)
Recorded in Memphis, Tennessee on February 21, 1928.
Released as Okeh 8558.
Credits
Lonnie Johnson – guitar
